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2025: PRC Scholars on Sino-US Trump 2.0 AI Rivalry

Related on this translation blog China and AI: The New Phase of AI Rivalry Between China and the US in the Trump 2.0 Era 特朗普2.0时期中美人工智能博弈的新阶段 December 25, 2025 by Lu Chuanying and Cai Yue Lu Chuanying 鲁传颖 is a Special … Continue reading

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2026: Thoughts on AI, DeepSeek, and Ideologically Suspect English Language Training Data as Poisonous Weeds

Just yesterday, thinking back to the Isaac Asimov story about a robot (probably the estimable Daneel) who ran for president of the USA because all the candidates were pretty bad news.  That got me to wondering and so I asked … Continue reading

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2006: Overseas Chinese Scholars Critique the Restless Climate at China’s Universities

The thinking and political/economic systems that Chinese people share has changed with unsettling speed over the past generation or two. This is reflected in changes in China’s science and technology system. — a difficult process involving many dependencies between scientific, … Continue reading

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2025: What’s New at the Much-Heralded Fourth Plenum and a Guide to Ideological and Political Terms in the Fourth Plenum Communique

I confess that I haven’t been reading the Party ideological journal Seeking Truth Qiushi 求是 as much when I subscribed to it when worked for the US Mission in China in Beijing and Chengdu. Reading the report on the Party’s … Continue reading

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2025: Wenzhou Court Pioneers Converting Seized Bitcoin to Money to Compensate Fraud Victims

An August 12 press report from Wenzhou, Zhejiang about a bitcoin fraud case suggests that Chinese courts are making progress at overcoming obstacles to returned seized bitcoin to their rightful owners. I asked the Chinese AI DeepSeek about this. The … Continue reading

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2025: PRC Rare Earths Related Production, Export Control and Environmental Protection Policies

Rare earth elements are important to the electronics industry and have become strategic materials. Political tensions and PRC occasional imposition of export controls, sometimes for political reasons, has made the search of alternative sources a pressing matter for some current … Continue reading

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400/50 BCE:ChatGPT4o on “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” From Strategies of the Warring States

German Sinologist Prof. Dr. Michael Höckelmann shared a passage from the Zhanguo Ce 戰國策 Strategies of the Warring States on BlueSky today. “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” is a tale about a wise upwardly mobile official that … Continue reading

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2025: Exploring Little Red Book — RedNote/Xiao Hongshu

I signed up for Little Red Book 小红书 (as in Mao’s Little Red Book) aka Red Note. While I remember the Red Restaurant craze in Beijing of the late 1990s with waiters in Red Guard uniforms serving Maio’s favorite dishes … Continue reading

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2024 NPC Lecture: AI and China — History, Prospects, Challenges, Strategies and Legislation

Sun Ninghui’s lecture to the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress reflects Chinese hopes and concerns on AI, its applications, and its role in strengthening China in international commercial competition. Sun also refers to AI’s role as a … Continue reading

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2024: Xi’s New Quality Productivity Innovation Builds China and Makes the World a Better Place

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has recently been discussing grand strategies for China’s way forward. While Xi Jinping Thought has Xi’s name attached, it is a corporate enterprise refined over the years through a process of constant development, … Continue reading

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